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Interactive Whiteboards
Interactive Whiteboards (IWB) are phenomenal tools. An Interactive Whiteboard is a large display that connects to a computer and projector through a wired medium such as USB and a serial port cable, or via a wireless connection such as Bluetooth. It provides way to show anything which can be presented on computer's desktop, such as educational software, websites and the like. The board is typically mounted on a wall or a floor stand. Interaction between the user and the content projected onto the interactive whiteboard primarily takes the form of a either a digital pen or stylus or a finger. In touch-based systems a finger or other simple pointing device is used.
Interactive Whiteboards, which were originally used in the corporate world for group meetings, have now started making their presence felt in a variety of settings, including classrooms, training rooms, broadcasting studios and many more.
IWBs look and can work like a conventional-whiteboard. Thus it maintains the familiarity one has with the conventional-whiteboard. These boards enhance learning by motivating students and raising the level of student engagement in classrooms. It encourages the involvement of learners in the subject.
An Interactive Whiteboard is better than a computer monitor when it come to classroom presentation because a PC allows only limited number of students to see the presentation, but with an IWB entire class can be covered very easily as it is much bigger in size.
It enables teachers to adopt different learning styles to meet the learners' requirement. It lets integration of audio, video, graphics, text and animation from a range of media such as CD-ROM, DVD, VCD, TV, radio, Internet, multimedia projector and all that, making the learning process much more interesting and full of fun. It makes the subject comes alive by bringing in depth clarity on a topic/subject matter.
Teachers can save and use their work repeatedly as anything drawn or written on the interactive-whiteboard-surface can be saved on a computer's hard disk using a whiteboard-software. The software allows the teacher to keep notes and annotations as an electronic file for later distribution either on paper or via diverse electronic formats.
The devise promotes e-learning as contents from websites, newsgroups, blogs, forums and other web based resources can be brought on the Interactive Whiteboard through a LCD projector.
An Interactive Whiteboard is a perfect tool for conducting brainstorming sessions and other group activities when used in juxtaposition with response-systems. Moreover, it is much easier to use than a conventional desktop computer or laptop. IWBs are very popular in the corporate sector. It is widely used for video conferencing, sales presentations, staff training, meetings, briefings, group discussions and all that. A market research carried out by Futuresource Consulting suggests that one of every seven classrooms in the world will feature an interactive whiteboard by 2011.
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